18"The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, will not have a portion or an inheritance within Israel. Instead, they will eat the burnt offerings of the Lord, because that is their inheritance.H3548H3881H7626H3878H2506H5159H3478H398H801H3068H801H51592But they will not have an inheritance among their relatives, because the Lord alone is their inheritance - as he promised them."H5159H7130H251H3068H5159H1696
Provision for the Priests
3"A portion of what the people offer in sacrifice, whether cattle or sheep, shall be due the priests. They must set aside the shoulder, jowls, and stomach for the priest.H3548H4941H5971H2076H2077H7794H7716H5414H3548H2220H3895H68964Give them the first gatherings of your grain, wine, oil, and wool from the shearing of your flock.H7225H1715H8492H3323H7225H1488H6629H54145For the Lord your God has chosen them and their descendants from among your tribes to stand and serve in the name of the Lord all their lives."H3068H430H977H7626H5975H8334H8034H3068H1121H3117
Provision for the Itinerant Levite
6"Any Levite who wishes to do so may come from any city or part of Israel where he resides to the place that the Lord will choose.H3881H935H259H8179H3478H1481H935H185H5315H4725H3068H9777There he may serve in the name of the Lord his God. Like his fellow Levites who stand there in the Lord's presence,H8334H8034H3068H430H251H3881H5975H6440H30688he may eat the same share as they do regardless of what he receives from his ancestral estate."H2506H398H4465H19"When you enter the land that the Lord your God is about to give you, don't learn the detestable practices of those nations there.H935H776H3068H430H5414H3925H6213H8441H147110There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in fire, practices divination, interprets omens, practices sorcery,H4672H1121H1323H5674H784H7080H7081H6049H5172H378411casts spells, or who is a medium, an occultist, or a necromancer.H2266H2267H7592H178H3049H1875H419112Whoever practices these things is detestable to the Lord, and the Lord your God will expel them before you because of these things.H6213H8441H3068H1558H8441H3068H430H3423H644013You must be completely faithful to the Lord your God,H8549H3068H43014because those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to those who practice witchcraft and divination. But the Lord does not allow you to act this way."1810H1471H3423H8085H6049H7080H3068H430H541415"The Lord your God will raise up a prophet like me for you from among your relatives. You must listen to him.H3068H430H6965H5030H7130H251H808516For this is what you asked from the Lord your God at Horeb when you were assembled together: 'Don't let us hear the voice of the Lord our God again, or even see this great fire - otherwise, we will die.'H7592H3068H430H2722H3117H6951H559H8085H3254H6963H3068H430H7200H1419H784H419117"Then the Lord said to me: 'What they have suggested is good.H3068H559H3190H169618I will raise up a prophet like you from among their relatives, and I will place my words in his mouth so that he may expound everything that I have commanded to them.H6965H5030H7130H251H5414H1697H6310H1696H668019But if someone will not listen to those words that the prophet speaks in my name, I will hold him accountable.H376H8085H1697H1696H8034H187520Even then, if the prophet speaks presumptuously in my name, which I didn't authorize him to speak, or if he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.'H5030H2102H1696H1697H8034H6680H1696H1696H8034H312H430H5030H419121Now you may ask yourselves, 'How will we be able to discern that the Lord has not spoken?'H559H3824H3045H1697H3068H169622Whenever a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, and the oracle does not come about or the word is not fulfilled, then the Lord has not spoken it. The prophet will have spoken presumptuously, so you need not fear him."H5030H1696H8034H3068H1697H935H1697H3068H1696H5030H1696H2087H1481